I am new on Painting i never know to paint i painting like a child here but now i progress a litttttttllleee just a good tutorial for hand paint for noobs like me will be good :)
I myself am using blender. It let's you paint on the model at the cost of only having one layer. I haven't used mudbox or 3dcoat so I can't say much. Imo paint with what feels the best to you. At the end of the day it's your actual painting skills and not the software that matters.
So I bought a tablet and I'm trying to learn how to paint these kind of textures. Here are my first two swords. Timelapse of the second one. I'd love to get some comments on what I'm doing right and what I need to focus more on/what to change and etc.
Super thanks for the critique Cremuss. I'll think about what you said more when I paint the next time. Decided to do a character now. Here's my current progress. I hope it will look good when painted.